5 of my favourite Kindle hacks that change how I take advantage of my e-reader

There is no competitors with regards to my favourite gadget — the Kindle Paperwhite takes house the gold each time. The 16GB E Ink pill comes with me on each morning commute, seaside journey, and occasional store run, simply in case I get a couple of minutes to bask in BookTok’s newest declare to fame. As a reader, carrying any type of Kindle in your ebook bag is equal to a knight together with his sword.

Nonetheless, like knights, we Kindle-bearers range in our levels of talent. Amazon snuck options onto its tablets that not even I knew about till lately. I am not speaking about Evening Mode or Highlights, both — listed here are 5 Kindle hacks that caught me off guard and at the moment are part of my day by day apply with the single-use pill.

1

Take a screenshot in your Kindle

And never with buttons, both

Whether or not it is a sick map, a good looking monochromatic cowl, and even only a web page filled with quotes that you must memorialize, it is solely pure to wish to take a psychological image once you learn. Whilst you can simply snap an image of a ebook or Kindle along with your telephone, it simply is not the identical as capturing it with out different annoying distractions filling up the body. Do not you simply want you can take a screenshot in your Kindle?

Nice information — you may. On the newer Kindle fashions, just like the 2024 Paperwhite and Oasis, all it’s a must to do is faucet two reverse corners of the display screen on the identical time to snag it. The display screen will do a fast inverted ‘flash,’ and growth, screenshot acquired.

You possibly can take screenshots on different fashions, too. On the Kindle Contact, press and maintain the House button and faucet wherever on the display screen. On a Kindle Scribe, press and maintain the ability button and hit Screenshot when the menu pops up.

Observe you could solely entry your screenshots on a pc once you join your Kindle by way of USB. As soon as it is linked, your gadget will pop up as an exterior drive. There, you may see a folder referred to as Screenshots, and inside shall be all of your valuable footage.

2

Ship to Kindle

Contemporary eyes on not-so-fresh paperwork

Send to Kindle is a function Amazon graced its customers with in order that they might ship paperwork, books, and different information proper to their Kindles with out going buying by the web retailer itself. You possibly can ship these information out of your laptop, cell gadget, and even proper from apps like Phrase. It is a lifesaver for college kids whose eyes are continually strained by the brilliant screens of their laptops, and even my good friend who likes to learn journal articles on her morning prepare journey (discuss concerning the intersection of analog and digital within the huge 2025). To seize one thing from the net like that, it’s a must to use Amazon’s specific browser extension.

I prefer it particularly to compensate for tales from Pocket-lint that I’ve missed all through the week. It is an important workaround for customers who’ve bought books from someplace apart from Amazon, too.

3

Play with margins

I would like my studying expertise to be as near a ebook as attainable

Now this is a very particular tip, and one that can make your Kindle really feel much more just like the hardcover titles of outdated:

1. Start on an open learn.
2. Faucet the highest of the display screen to deliver up the menu.
3. Faucet Aa.
4. Toggle over to the Format tab.
5. Below Margins, choose the center choice.
6. Now toggle over to Font, and set the Dimension to 6, 7, or 8.

You are both going to like or hate this look. I feel that it actually offers extra of an extended web page really feel, and makes me really feel like I am studying a bodily ebook fairly than watching a display screen — even when it’s the beautiful E Ink. Some users declare it boosts their studying speeds.

4

Change fonts with a particular short-cut

Hiding in plain web site

This one is extremely intuitive, particularly when you’re (additionally) the type of one that’s tried to ‘zoom in’ on a bodily ebook since you forgot you were not studying on a display screen. Should you take two fingers and unfold them aside and even collectively on the display screen — similar to you’ll on different units to ‘zoom in’ or ‘zoom out’ — a font measurement menu will seem on the prime of the display screen.

Cautious, although. Should you do not work together with it shortly sufficient, it is going to disappear.

5

Swap between location orientations immediately

You would possibly’ve discovered this one by accident, or in a irritating match of “what even is ‘location'” faucets. Simply me? Okay, nicely, if you have not heard of this one, learn on. As any Kindle proprietor has most likely observed, there is a setting within the decrease left-hand nook of your display screen that orients you in your studying progress. You possibly can select between:

• Web page in ebook
• Location in ebook
• Time left in chapter
• Time left in ebook
• None

Personally, I choose a easy web page quantity. However, when you’re in a time crunch and solely have a couple of minutes to learn on a aircraft or prepare, you would possibly choose swapping to time left in chapter or ebook to find out when you’re about to be left on a cliffhanger. Fortunately, you do not have to go sifting by menus to vary it up on a dime. As an alternative, you may simply shortly faucet the decrease left-hand nook to swap between the choices till you land on the one you like.